Jury

Jury 2012

The jury of Startup 2.0 is formed by European VCs, founders, editors, bloggers and other specialists in the Web 2.0, mobile and computing gaming technologies.

Their decisions are taken by majority of votes and based on: business sense and growth expectations, innovation, degree of competition in their market, quality of the presentation and, in its case, the video sent to the contest and team.

Alexis Bonte

Co-founder & CEO at eRepublik Labs, he has also been chairman at Triluliu, co-founder of Eurobuysell tradeok.com, managing director at livra.com and at lastminute.com. He was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2012.

Gianluca Dettori

Founder and CEO of Dpixel, a venture capital advisory firm, his goal is to seed and early stage financing and advisory for Internet & high tech industry startups in Europe. He was also Founder and CEO at Vitaminic.

Nicolas Gaume

Co-Founder & CEO at Mimesis Republic, he is also board member at Mobygames and Enjmin and president at France’s National Video Games Syndicate (SNJV). He’s also been managing director at Lagardere Games, Ubi Soft, Kalisto and NGM Productions.

Mo Jen

Formerly the owner of Brickmistress Music and Sound Design in Los Angeles, she relocated to the UK to work as the Audio Director for Zoonami and now for Playfish (Electronic Arts).

Stephanie Kaiser

Addicted to building games for non-gamers, she is Product Lead at Wooga, the second biggest developer of social games worldwide. While Stephanie still cares a lot about her Monster World, she is currently working on top-secret unannounced games.

Arda Kutsal

Founder and editor of Webrazzi, the most popular Turkish Web 2.0 blog. He is also Founder and General Manager of the management, strategy and marketing consultancy company, Crenvo Consultancy.

Matt Martin

Matt Martin joined GamesIndustry in 2006 and was made editor of the site in 2008. With over ten years experience in journalism, he has written for multiple trade, consumer, contract and business-to-business publications in the games, retail and technology sectors.

Mircea Pasoi

After founding several startups and selling Summify to Twitter, this engineer from Bucharest is currently Technical Lead at Twitter.

Kevin Slavin

Co-founder of social game developer Area/Code (acquired in 2011 by Zynga), Starling and AFK, he sometimes teaches at NYU/ITP, Cooper Union, Fabrica, etc.

Gonzo Suárez

Son of a movie director, he created “Commandos”, a stealth-oriented real-time tactics game series, back in 1998. He is now developing a new computer game and has become vicepresidente of Spain’s Academy of Interactive Sciences.

Jury 2011

The Jury of Startup 2.0 2011 was formed by VCs, founders, editors, bloggers and other specialists in Web 2.0 & mobile technologies from all over Europe:

Their decisions are taken by majority of votes and based on: business sense and growth expectations, innovation, degree of competition in their market, quality of the presentation and, in its case, the video sent to the contest and team.

Ivan Brezak

Founder and editor in chief of the web business blog Netokracija, curator at StartupDigest and regional writer for Techcrunch Europe. His company, Acumen Connect, helps companies such as T-Mobile and Microsoft with content marketing.

Milan Cermak

Developer of mobile applications and backend systems at Wildfuse.com. Co-creator of Co Pouciva , a set of interviews of the Czech and Slovak IT community. Member of the core localhero.com team. You can follow him on Twitter @milancermak.

Gianluca Dettori

Founder and CEO of Dpixel, a venture capital advisory firm, his goal is to seed and early stage financing and advisory for Internet & high tech industry startups in Europe. He was also Founder and CEO fo Vitaminic.

Patrick de Laive

Co-founder of The Next Web, a leading new media company known for its highly popular technology blog thenextweb.com, its unparalleled conferences and startups like TwitterCounter.com.

Stephanie Kaiser

She is the Product Lead of Monster World at wooga (world of gaming), a top 20 social game on Facebook with over 1.3m daily and over 7m monthly active users. Previously, she has worked as a Product Manager at Jamba/Jamster and as Manager of Product Development at MTV Networks.

Arda Kutsal

Founder and editor of Webrazzi, the most popular Turkish Web 2.0 blog. He is also Founder and General Manager of the management, strategy and marketing consultancy company, Crenvo Consultancy.

Berislav Lopac

Co-founder and honorary member at CRANE (Croatian Business Angel Network), he is Referrer at HackFwd and Member of the Board at British Chamber of Commerce in Croatia.

Steve O’Hear

He is currently Contributing Editor at TechCrunch Europe and also writes the blog last100. He also regularly freelances and has written for numerous publications, including The Guardian, Macworld UK, Mobile Industry Review, TES, ZDNet and ReadWriteWeb, on topics ranging from the social web, educational technology to consumer electronics. You can follow Steve on Twitter: @sohear.

Conor O’Neill

He is founder and CEO of LouderVoice, Europe’s leading provider of Social Commerce solutions for customer reviews. He is also co-editor of Irish tech-community site Web2Ireland.org, award-winning blogger at tech blog Cross Dominant, Cloud Services Evangelist for Digital Mines and consultant to several mobile technology companies.